See Also
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Walter Van Tilburg Clark (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: The central California coast
- Characters: Hook, A Japanese farmer
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, California, West, U.S., Fear, Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Birds, Hunting or hunters, Guns, Animals, dangerous, Wounds or injuries, Hunger, Starvation, 1930's
- Locales: California, United States, North America
The Story
As a fledgling hawk, Hook is matter-of-factly pushed from the nest by his parents during one of the recurring droughts common to the semi-arid terrain of the central California coast. Preoccupied with their own survival, his parents abandon him to the sand and brush along the dry river bed. As hunger takes precedence over parental and reproductive urges, the father and mother go their separate ways to course about the dry hillsides looking for prey, leaving their undeveloped fledgling to his fate. Still partially covered with down, lacking flight feathers,...
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